Esquivel was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and composer for television and films and widely considered the king of a style of late 1950s-early 1960s quirky instrumental pop known today as lounge music. RCA contracted with Esquivel in late 1957 and brought him to record in Hollywood in early 1958. He was given five hours of studio time to record the album "Other Worlds, Other Sounds.

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His orchestration tended toward the very lush, employing novel instrumental combinations, such as Chinese bells, mariachi bands, whistling and numerous percussion instruments blended with orchestra, mixed chorus and his own heavily-ornamented piano style. The chorus was often called upon to sing only nonsense syllables, most famously "zu-zu" and "pow!"

The cover of Other Worlds Other Sounds says it all...like the woman in red dancing on a moonscape, this 1958 long-player was all about fantasy. And Esquivel wasn't afraid to fantasize about his instrumentation nor the new audio sound known as "stereophonic or Hi Fi." At the time Esquivel was using this new tech to its fullest by arranging the music in a unique manner as well as considering right channel-left channel. Voices ring back and forth between speakers, horns explode out of nowhere, and piano sounds cascade out of the stereo. This is what hi-fi was all about. It is seamless, quite enjoyable and rather magical.

Essentially, this is an entire album of standards played in a beguine tempo with a percussive orchestra and a humming chorus, but — under Esquivel's knob-twiddling fingers — the disc turns into magic. Voices ring back and forth between speakers, horns explode out of nowhere, and piano sounds cascade out of the stereo. This is what hi-fi was all about, and — though it was merely a precursor to the composer's even stranger sonic experiments — it's also one of his most cohesive albums.

Track Listing:

Side A
1. Granada
2. Begin The Beguine
3. Night And Day
4. Poinciana
5. Playfully
6. Adios

Side B
1. That Old Black Magic
2. Nature Boy
3. Magic Is The Moonlight (Te quiero dijiste)
4. Speak Low
5. Ballerina
6. It Had To Be You